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Jeffrey Weiss
Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts


Areas of Interest:

Modernist and Post-war Art
Applications of Conservation Research to Historical and Critical Methodologies
Curatorial Practice


Selected Publications:


“Andre’s Terms” (forthcoming, Chinati Newsletter).

“Sight Lines,” in Robert Morris: Drawing as Thinking (exhib. cat., IVAM, 2011).

“Richard Serra Drawing” (exhib. review), Artforum (September 2011).

“Carl Andre: Cuts” (exhib. Review), Artforum (February 2011).

“State of the Art: Matisse Under Examination." Artforum (March 2010).

“The Painted Word." Artforum (March 2009).

“Cy Twombly.” Artforum (October 2008).

“The Matisse Grid.” In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse, edited by Eik Khang.Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2007.

“Painting Bitten by a Man.” In Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-65, edited by J. Weiss.Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

“Blunt in Bright Repose” In Dan Flavin: New Light, edited by J. Weiss and B. Fer. Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

"9 Minutes 45 Seconds.” In Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art, edited by Bruce Altshuler.Princeton: Princeton University Press 2005.

“Dis-Orientation: Rothko’s Inverted Canvases.” In Seeing Rothko, edited by Thomas Crow.Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute 2005.

“Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artist’s Writings 1960-1975.” Artforum (Summer 2004).

“Fleeting and Fixed: Picasso’s Fernandes.” In Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier, edited by J. Weiss. Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

“Radiant Dispersion: Robert Ryman’s Prototype Paintings.” Artforum (September 2002).

"Swift's Cubism: A Rhetoric of Irony." Revue de l'art (no. 4 1996).

The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism.New Haven: Yale University Press 1994.


In Preparation:


Robert Morris: The Early Object Sculpture 1961-65, catalogue raisonné.New Haven: Yale University Press.

The Material Uncanny. New Haven: Yale University Press.


Exhibitions:

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting 1955-65.  National Gallery of Art, 2007; Kunstmuseum Basel.
Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier. National Gallery of Art, fall 2003.
Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris


Selected Classes:


Post-Minimal
Box with the Sound of Its Own Making: Minimalisms
Object Sculpture (colloquium)
Smithson/Nauman (seminar)
The “Death” of Painting  (seminar)
Process Art c.1960-1975 (seminar)